Remembering Diana

In the hours before a memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of her death, Princess Diana has again captured the world's attention. In London and Paris, the ordinary people who won't be at that service remembered her at memorials, official and makeshift. At left, a visitor stands beside a photo collage taped to the gates of Kensington Palace, Diana's London home.

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A girl poses next to one of 10 golden dandelion sculptures decorating the grounds of Kensington Palace in London in memory of the late Princess Diana on Aug. 30, 2007, the day before a memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.

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A photograph and a plastic flower is attached to the ornate gates of Kensington Palace on Aug. 30, 2007, the day before a memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of her death. This picture was taken around the time that Diana, then 19, became engaged to Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Great Britain.

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An art installation by artist Sofie Layton has been placed in Kensington Palace Gardens to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The 10 giant dandelion heads echo the thousands of flowers that mourners left in front of the palace gates after her death on Aug. 31, 1997.

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Artist Sofie Layton poses with her art installation in Kensington Palace Gardens in central London on Aug. 30, 2007. Her 11-foot-tall dandelions have 630 small flower heads, each individually gold-leafed by a visitor to the royal park.

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A child points to the top of one of the giant dandelions standing in London's Kensington Palace Gardens in memory of Princess Diana on Aug. 30, 2007. One completed dandelion has been added each week since July 1. The last is to go up on Aug. 31, the day of the memorial service in her honor.

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A visitor looks at tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales, posted on the gates of Kensington Palace in London on Aug. 2007. The message on the right takes an ominous tone: "The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine."

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A little girl places flowers at the gates to Kensington Palace in central London on Aug. 30, 2007, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Visitors look at some of the tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales, posted on the gates of London's Kensington Palace on Aug. 28, 2007.

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A 1981 photograph of the late Princess Diana by Lord Snowdon is part of a special exhibition in London's National Portrait Gallery marking the 10th anniversary of her death.

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A tourist snaps a picture near a photograph of Princess Diana that's displayed in the grounds of Kensington Palace in London on April 30, 2007.

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In Paris, people who remember Diana are congregating at the replica of the flame of the Statue of Liberty that stands near the Alma bridge, close to the tunnel where she died in a car crash on Aug. 31, 1997. The flame, seen in this Aug. 30, 2007, photo, has been an unofficial memorial site since her death.

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Bunches of flowers are left at the base of a replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame in Paris on Aug. 30, 2007. The sculpture stands on the north bank of the River Seine.

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Pavel Nowak, 37, travelled 1,200 miles by bus from Poland to be in Paris on Aug. 31, 2007, the 10th anniversary of Diana's death. The newspaper headline, translated into English, reads: "The Endless Story."

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Ten years ago, Dr. Frederic Maillez was the first physician to arrive at the scene of the crash that killed Britain's Diana, Princess of Wales. Here, he watches traffic pass through the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris on Aug. 29. 2007.